Democracy and market economies rule across the continent, but politically the former blocs are drifting apart again 30 years after the Berlin Wall fell
By Bojan Pancevski Nov. 10, 2019 12:00 pm ET BERLIN—Thirty years after the Berlin Wall fell, ending the Cold War in Europe, new political divisions are rising between East and West.
Some Eastern European countries that once fought against Soviet oppression, such as Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary, are now ruled by governments that vehemently reject some liberal Western values. Ms. Lengsfeld says she rejects the AfD, but she shares their criticism of Ms. Merkel’s generous asylum policy, and has campaigned against mass immigration. She says political correctness is threatening free speech, leading to her views being dismissed as extremist.
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Millions of people have left Eastern Europe for the West since 1989, robbing entire regions of their educated elites. In the former East Germany, which has lost nearly four million people since reunification, the AfD is particularly strong in places where more people have left. Ironically for a region where citizens were banned from freely traveling during the Cold War, a study by Mr. Krastev for the European Council on Foreign Relations found that 50% of Poles and 49% of Hungarians favored making it illegal for their own citizens to leave for long periods as a policy response to migration.
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